The New New Chicagoans is a featured exhibition of Version 11 Festival
Featuring: Mike Andrews, Dayton Castleman, Ryan Travis Christian, Paul Cowan, Ryan Duggan, Stephen Eichhorn, Edie Fake, Aron Gent, Cody Hudson, Matthew Hoffman, Thad Kellstadt, Jason lazarus, Rachael Marszewski, Paul Nudd, Rachel Niffenegger, Josue Pellot, Josh Reames, Anna Shteynshleyger, Sonnenzimmer, Greg Stimac, Christine Tarkowski.
Hosted by the Co-Prosperity Sphere
3219 S Morgan St
Chiacgo, IL
773.837.0145
Let there Be Geo...a group show *featuring works by Cody Hudson aka Struggle Inc Mar 4th-Apr 24th 619 S Wabash Ave Chicago 312.369.8687
" 'Let there be Geo' takes a contemporary look at visual artists who use geometric form in their work. While geometric form is not a new phenomenon, geo forms are appearing in some of the most aesthetically progressive work being made today. The largest advocators of the use of geometric shapes began with Futurism and Cubism moving through the Op Art of the 60s and Neo-Geometric Conceptualism of the 80s. Predominantly cool and impersonal in approach, though often active with content, contemporary 21st century responses to geometric form employ a variety of styles and media from painting to video to photography and sculpture. The works in Let there be Geo explore today’s incarnation of geometric form. Exhibiting artists include Maya Hayuk, Cody Hudson (image credit), Barbara Kasten, Sam Prekop, Geoffrey Todd Smith, and Steven Husby among others."
The Obama Presidential campaign was innovative. For the first time in American politics, a candidate used art and design to bring together the American people—capturing their voices in a visual way. The Design Director of the Obama campaign, Scott Thomas, has collaborated with artists and designers to create Designing Obama, a chronicle of the art and design from the historic campaign. Get the inside story on how design was used by the campaign, and scope out the pieces, created unofficially, by grassroots supporters.
Denmark's Slaraffenland dropped their newest 7" single titled "Meet and Greet"...a sneak peek at their new album 'We're On Your Side' and features the exclusive B-Side "My Bad Ways" (from their album-recording session). Colored vinyl features artwork by Chicago's Cody Hudson aka Struggle Inc. Slaraffenland's full-length CD & LP is set to drop Sept 15th. The 1st 100 singles purchased from the Hometapes website ($7 postage paid in the US) have been signed and doodled on by Cody Hudson, himself. SWEET! I just bought 2! Get the official low-down from their website: www.slaraffenland.net or hit their MySpace and 'friend' them: www.myspace.com/slaraffenland
Chicago's Cody Hudson aka Struggle Inc is in a group show titled Public Works at the Andrew Rafacz Gallery. The show roster also includes: Chris Eichenseer, Justin Fines & Andy Mueller. Public Works runs through August 29th.
"Public Works is a group show that features four artists who've spent years in Chicago working within the independent art and music communities: Cody Hudson, Justin Fines, Andy Mueller, and Chris Eichenseer. Longtime friends, the four men have parlayed their street-level art styles into careers as internationally recognized graphic designers. The new pieces presented in Public Works are wholly representative of the dual-influences of fine and commercial art in the artists' lives, the gallery covered in an egalitarian display of screenprints, a digital pastiche of color blocks, Greco-Roman statues, sardonic portrait photography and Dungeons and Dragons references. Accompanying the new work is a wall thick with retrospective rock posters, album covers and street images that bump and overlap, a physical manifestation of the artists' intertwined pasts and common futures."
Andrew Rafacz Gallery. 835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago. 312-404-9188